[ SECRET POST #3931 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3931 ⌋

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[cbrachyrhynchos]

Just my experience, I never know how grief will hit me until I'm in the middle of it.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, my grandmother died a week before David Bowie. I wasn't that upset about my grandmother (she'd been ill for a long time and her death was very peaceful) but then when David Bowie died I think something clicked in my brain about my grandmother and I was horribly upset.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that can definitely be part of the whole "mourning celebrities" thing, too. If they're within the same age range as you or somebody you know/love, whether that person's still alive or not, it's yet another reminder of how anyone can die at anytime, which is, obviously, unnerving to think about.

And there's also the scenario that if you and a loved one you lost bonded over something a musician/actor/writer created, and that famous person dies as well, it's like feeling the loss of your loved one all over again, and losing a part of your connection to them.

Bottom line, emotions are weird. People will react to things in ways that may not make sense to other people, let alone the person actually experiencing the emotions. Maybe the grief over a famous person's death is hinting at deeper emotional problems they're not facing, maybe they have a rather unhealthy obsession with the famous person, or maybe they're just sad that someone who created things that were special to them is gone. Whatever the reason for their grief over a famous person's death, they're still valid reactions, and, as we've clearly seen every single time a famous person dies, they're still very common reactions. Somebody can personally find that sort of response weird and nonsensical if they so wish, but as long as the person mourning isn't hurting anyone or things of that sort, I don't get why those who don't sympathize with them really need to get on them about how they're feeling and reacting.